Dr. Peadar O'Grady:

It is not the purpose of the Bill, as I understand it, to interfere in any way with any of the existing rules, from the Medical Council and so on, that govern those areas. There may be some expertise that says they do conflict and therefore would require an amendment, but I am not aware of any. Doctors' responsibilities are not changed in any way. All this Bill does is protect the patient from prosecution and enable them to access medicinal cannabis safely, and as a good quality product, from a pharmacy and so on. Doctors' responsibilities are still their responsibilities.